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Journey of Exploration #3
Finding Faith
Sadie Watkins has lost her faith—or so she thinks.
Sadie’s life once appeared the picture of success—an accomplished prosecutor with an adoring wife and two beautiful children. After an amicable yet painful divorce, and a 360-degree turn in her career, Sadie believes she has accepted what her future holds. Planning, structure, and familiarity are here things Sadie prizes. At forty-nine, she remains best friends with her ex-wife, Julie. She’s learned to accept the addition of Julie’s partner, Becca in her life and the lives of their two teenage children, Kaylee and Kevin. If not always fulfilling, Sadie’s life has become comfortably familiar. That is until she collides with a young musician named Faith Devine.
Eighteen years Sadie’s junior, Faith is an adventurer. The driving force between a popular local band called Divine Intervention, Faith is insanely curious about everything, not the least of which is Sadie Watkins. As Sadie and Faith’s friendship blossoms, Sadie will find the comfort she finds in familiarity challenged by Faith’s spirit of exploration and her honesty. Falling in love is the easy part of starting a relationship. Learning to let go of the past without fearing the future requires something greater than excitement and attraction. Sadie is about to discover the meaning of FINDING FAITH.
Finding Faith is the third installment in a series of short-story erotic romances by best-selling author J.A. Armstrong.
Sadie’s life once appeared the picture of success—an accomplished prosecutor with an adoring wife and two beautiful children. After an amicable yet painful divorce, and a 360-degree turn in her career, Sadie believes she has accepted what her future holds. Planning, structure, and familiarity are here things Sadie prizes. At forty-nine, she remains best friends with her ex-wife, Julie. She’s learned to accept the addition of Julie’s partner, Becca in her life and the lives of their two teenage children, Kaylee and Kevin. If not always fulfilling, Sadie’s life has become comfortably familiar. That is until she collides with a young musician named Faith Devine.
Eighteen years Sadie’s junior, Faith is an adventurer. The driving force between a popular local band called Divine Intervention, Faith is insanely curious about everything, not the least of which is Sadie Watkins. As Sadie and Faith’s friendship blossoms, Sadie will find the comfort she finds in familiarity challenged by Faith’s spirit of exploration and her honesty. Falling in love is the easy part of starting a relationship. Learning to let go of the past without fearing the future requires something greater than excitement and attraction. Sadie is about to discover the meaning of FINDING FAITH.
Finding Faith is the third installment in a series of short-story erotic romances by best-selling author J.A. Armstrong.
213 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 23, 2018
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December 15, 2018
This is an unusual story, and I found it refreshing. I will be reading it again.
December 28, 2018
Very well-written story. Throughly enjoyed reading it! 😊
January 14, 2023
Third in a set of stand alone novella’s. Sadie was married 20 years, has two teen children and a solid professional career as a lawyer. She isn’t expecting to feel attraction when she meets Faith at a Pride concert. Faith in 18 years younger but also a lawyer turned musician. They fall into an easy friendship but Sadie isn’t sure if it can be more. I could have easily read a full length novel with these characters. I particularly liked that she still the friendship with her ex-wife and partner. But I really don’t like when characters are with other people after they’ve caught feelings. And then the ending came in a rush. (3.5 Stars)
December 26, 2018
Great story
This is a great story, sweet, passionate, filled with hope and faith. I enjoyed and recommend it. J.A. Armstrong style is bold and sexy, gets better every time.
This is a great story, sweet, passionate, filled with hope and faith. I enjoyed and recommend it. J.A. Armstrong style is bold and sexy, gets better every time.
December 10, 2025
2nd time even better
I rated a 4 the 1st time I read and I'm not sure why. The characters are amazing and the storyline was one that i can relate to.
I rated a 4 the 1st time I read and I'm not sure why. The characters are amazing and the storyline was one that i can relate to.
April 21, 2024
I think that…
age-gap romances can be the hardest to write. There are so many tropes that you have to overcome. And for an audience like me, it has to be traversed carefully. I tire of a constant whining about the gap from the one that happens to be older than the one wanting the relationship to happen. Because of the pressures of society, our obsession with youth and making it synonymous with vitality, and wondering why or how anyone younger could be truly and fully attracted to someone older still eludes us. I know it does me. When I was younger, I did not have my eyes on anyone older. Although two of my spouses were 7 and 8 years older than me. That still isn’t a considerable age gap per se.
I identified with Sadie so much. Perhaps, because I am Sadie. I am currently facing life just as she is. I lost my spouse in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. And I was almost the age of Sadie. And my outlook seems and feels just like her. As I reading, I was saying, that this is my life. Now my teenager is no longer one and I already had a child 11 years older than the teenager. It is harder to move on or even want to start over. You get complacent with being alone. Loneliness becomes its own routine and just as hard to break and want to fill that time.
I know why Sadie fought it. I know why she ran. I know why she hid. I know why she almost hurt Faith when she left the party “without” Faith. Your life is completely changed. You don’t look the same as you did when you were Faith’s age. Your perspective on life is different than when you were that age. You tend to think you had already gave everything away that you had to give. Like she had in her first marriage. I had that. I found myself there with my wife, before she passed away. My life, our life resembled Sadies and Julie’s. I didn’t feel anything anymore, but I wasn’t going to leave it. I was content with a touch-less, in-loveless, lonely life while being married to and living with someone.
I am glad that Sadie’s daughter and her ex-wife would not let her continue to just sleepwalk through life. And there was no one else perfect for her than Faith. I am so happy that Sadie did not “lose” Faith.
age-gap romances can be the hardest to write. There are so many tropes that you have to overcome. And for an audience like me, it has to be traversed carefully. I tire of a constant whining about the gap from the one that happens to be older than the one wanting the relationship to happen. Because of the pressures of society, our obsession with youth and making it synonymous with vitality, and wondering why or how anyone younger could be truly and fully attracted to someone older still eludes us. I know it does me. When I was younger, I did not have my eyes on anyone older. Although two of my spouses were 7 and 8 years older than me. That still isn’t a considerable age gap per se.
I identified with Sadie so much. Perhaps, because I am Sadie. I am currently facing life just as she is. I lost my spouse in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. And I was almost the age of Sadie. And my outlook seems and feels just like her. As I reading, I was saying, that this is my life. Now my teenager is no longer one and I already had a child 11 years older than the teenager. It is harder to move on or even want to start over. You get complacent with being alone. Loneliness becomes its own routine and just as hard to break and want to fill that time.
I know why Sadie fought it. I know why she ran. I know why she hid. I know why she almost hurt Faith when she left the party “without” Faith. Your life is completely changed. You don’t look the same as you did when you were Faith’s age. Your perspective on life is different than when you were that age. You tend to think you had already gave everything away that you had to give. Like she had in her first marriage. I had that. I found myself there with my wife, before she passed away. My life, our life resembled Sadies and Julie’s. I didn’t feel anything anymore, but I wasn’t going to leave it. I was content with a touch-less, in-loveless, lonely life while being married to and living with someone.
I am glad that Sadie’s daughter and her ex-wife would not let her continue to just sleepwalk through life. And there was no one else perfect for her than Faith. I am so happy that Sadie did not “lose” Faith.
September 2, 2019
Good but needed more
“Looking into the eyes of a person who loves you—a person who sees past the façade you erect year after year, beyond the blemishes of time and the subtle lines that crease the corner of your eyes, straight into the foundation of your being—that moment is rare and unequaled in the human experience.”
“Why does it have to hurt so much to feel good? Another contradiction that makes no sense to me. Isn’t falling in love supposed to make your heart sing?”
“I want to fall away in her embrace, under her touch, and in her eyes—over and over again. Perhaps, in order to love, we must agree to lose a part of ourselves.”
• ~ • ~ • ~ •
Its a book with so much potential from a creative & captive storyline that unfortunately ends up falling well short.
Lacking the development , details & intimacy of the scenes, characters & situations just leaves it feeling less than.
Everything seemed to happen in like warp speed & with no emotions or imagery to connect with... If the author reissued an updated version that developed & expounded on the characters & the narrative more, it could potentially be more than just a quickie subpar offering.
“Looking into the eyes of a person who loves you—a person who sees past the façade you erect year after year, beyond the blemishes of time and the subtle lines that crease the corner of your eyes, straight into the foundation of your being—that moment is rare and unequaled in the human experience.”
“Why does it have to hurt so much to feel good? Another contradiction that makes no sense to me. Isn’t falling in love supposed to make your heart sing?”
“I want to fall away in her embrace, under her touch, and in her eyes—over and over again. Perhaps, in order to love, we must agree to lose a part of ourselves.”
• ~ • ~ • ~ •
Its a book with so much potential from a creative & captive storyline that unfortunately ends up falling well short.
Lacking the development , details & intimacy of the scenes, characters & situations just leaves it feeling less than.
Everything seemed to happen in like warp speed & with no emotions or imagery to connect with... If the author reissued an updated version that developed & expounded on the characters & the narrative more, it could potentially be more than just a quickie subpar offering.
December 2, 2018
What a fantastic story with
J.A.Armstrong has A done it again with this fantastic story. This time about a woman shed 49 whpse has divorced her wife amicably they remain best friends even when her ex remarried there two children a girl aged 16 and a boy aged 14. This is a brilliant story of the woman whose afraid of loving again but then meets a young woman age 31 and how she helps her to learn to Love again despite the age between
If you've not read J.A.Armstrong books before and you want a brilliant story then definitely recommended this book.
Looking. forward to her next book in inanticipation
J.A.Armstrong has A done it again with this fantastic story. This time about a woman shed 49 whpse has divorced her wife amicably they remain best friends even when her ex remarried there two children a girl aged 16 and a boy aged 14. This is a brilliant story of the woman whose afraid of loving again but then meets a young woman age 31 and how she helps her to learn to Love again despite the age between
If you've not read J.A.Armstrong books before and you want a brilliant story then definitely recommended this book.
Looking. forward to her next book in inanticipation
May 6, 2019
Excellent!
This well written book, along with the well developed characters, takes the reader on a journey of faith. Not in the religious sense, but in a spiritual way, this book explores one woman's struggle to move beyond the past and her own limiting beliefs. Middle aged women can and do experience desire, despite anything they themselves may believe. Moving beyond that self-imposed barrier and opening up the heart to the possibility of love again can be frightening. But the rewards are worth the risk. Be sure to add this book to your must read list.
This well written book, along with the well developed characters, takes the reader on a journey of faith. Not in the religious sense, but in a spiritual way, this book explores one woman's struggle to move beyond the past and her own limiting beliefs. Middle aged women can and do experience desire, despite anything they themselves may believe. Moving beyond that self-imposed barrier and opening up the heart to the possibility of love again can be frightening. But the rewards are worth the risk. Be sure to add this book to your must read list.
June 24, 2019
It was pretty good..
I enjoyed the characters but not as much as the first two installments. It was a little too domesticated for me. If I wanted domesticity, I would read books about traditional relationships. The fascination with lesbian, supernatural and BSDM stories for me is that they are outside the norm . This is what stimulates my imagination. I know I'm weird but oh well ..
I enjoyed the characters but not as much as the first two installments. It was a little too domesticated for me. If I wanted domesticity, I would read books about traditional relationships. The fascination with lesbian, supernatural and BSDM stories for me is that they are outside the norm . This is what stimulates my imagination. I know I'm weird but oh well ..
September 24, 2021
There’s a cruel joke in here.
It’s Ms. Armstrong’s generic formula. An ordinary and oblivious woman falls for a gorgeous (and in this case much younger) woman. And the pov, the angst, the self-doubt, the obliviousness, the obstacles are all from the “ordinary” one. But the cruel joke is that the hottest, most erotic sex scene is with another woman. The whole story is well written, even compelling, but that “joke” definitely left me sad. It was pathetic rather enjoyable.
It’s Ms. Armstrong’s generic formula. An ordinary and oblivious woman falls for a gorgeous (and in this case much younger) woman. And the pov, the angst, the self-doubt, the obliviousness, the obstacles are all from the “ordinary” one. But the cruel joke is that the hottest, most erotic sex scene is with another woman. The whole story is well written, even compelling, but that “joke” definitely left me sad. It was pathetic rather enjoyable.
November 9, 2021
wonderful series
Weaving the challenges of being human and living in a world that is mostly broken, but still allowing the human spirit to find love and joy is one of the gifts J.A. Armstrong offers in her writing. Her characters are dynamic and thought provoking in a story filled with humor, doubts, awakenings and compassion. In this age gap story love is the ultimate healer.
Weaving the challenges of being human and living in a world that is mostly broken, but still allowing the human spirit to find love and joy is one of the gifts J.A. Armstrong offers in her writing. Her characters are dynamic and thought provoking in a story filled with humor, doubts, awakenings and compassion. In this age gap story love is the ultimate healer.
June 21, 2023
4 stars. This would’ve been my favorite but then Sadie went and slept with someone else and I did not like that at all. Other than that this was still a really great read. I loved that Sadie is an older woman in her fifties falling love after a divorce. She and Faith had wonderful chemistry. I especially liked Faith and thought she was a very endearing character. The ending was great and minus that one thing this was a really good read.
December 31, 2018
You gotta have Faith
This was a quick read about a lawyer, Sadie, who is pushed by her ex-wife to start living her life again a few years following their divorce. Sadie is introduced to musician, Faith, who is eighteen years her junior. This was an excellent slow burn age gap romance with just the right amount of angst.
This was a quick read about a lawyer, Sadie, who is pushed by her ex-wife to start living her life again a few years following their divorce. Sadie is introduced to musician, Faith, who is eighteen years her junior. This was an excellent slow burn age gap romance with just the right amount of angst.
January 30, 2019
Beautiful book
This is a very different book from all the other books of J.A Armstrong. It is doesn't fully describe the characters but there are a lot of emotions and a lot of internal thoughts. I really like it as it was not what I expected to be. There are some very realistic and emotional moments. So definitely yes for me.
This is a very different book from all the other books of J.A Armstrong. It is doesn't fully describe the characters but there are a lot of emotions and a lot of internal thoughts. I really like it as it was not what I expected to be. There are some very realistic and emotional moments. So definitely yes for me.
February 5, 2019
Wonderful story
Great handling of the age cap by not making it the center of the story. Love between Faith and Sadie and how it evolved was written and the story was fascinating and kept this reader thoroughly enthralled throughout the book. Am looking forward to reading more by this author.
Great handling of the age cap by not making it the center of the story. Love between Faith and Sadie and how it evolved was written and the story was fascinating and kept this reader thoroughly enthralled throughout the book. Am looking forward to reading more by this author.
December 1, 2018
Another Goodie
The best of the three so far in this series,not that the others were bad they just didn’t quite do it for me,it reminds me of the Design series which I absolutely love. Waiting for the next
The best of the three so far in this series,not that the others were bad they just didn’t quite do it for me,it reminds me of the Design series which I absolutely love. Waiting for the next
December 10, 2018
Cougar in love
A lovely short story of two wonderful woman from different worlds and in the same. Sadie is a lawyer and Faith a musician who studied law. Sadie is running away from getting hurt again but fails and falls in love again.
A lovely short story of two wonderful woman from different worlds and in the same. Sadie is a lawyer and Faith a musician who studied law. Sadie is running away from getting hurt again but fails and falls in love again.
January 6, 2019
Wonderful experience
I think that this was a wonderful experience. The author kept me on the edge of my seat. I will refer this to all of my friends. It was a fantastic read and will most likely read it again in the near future.
I think that this was a wonderful experience. The author kept me on the edge of my seat. I will refer this to all of my friends. It was a fantastic read and will most likely read it again in the near future.
November 25, 2018
Great Series
Have some ice water ready when you read this series. Lol. J.A Armstrong really knows how to tell a story. Beautifully written.
Have some ice water ready when you read this series. Lol. J.A Armstrong really knows how to tell a story. Beautifully written.
November 25, 2018
Well written as always.
November 26, 2018
Omg
This was a great book i loved the slow burn to it i couldn't put it down like all your other books u have me hooked
This was a great book i loved the slow burn to it i couldn't put it down like all your other books u have me hooked
December 14, 2018
Yes!
I have enjoyed every book I have ever read by J.A. Armstrong but I have to say this has been my favorite. Awesome job!!
I have enjoyed every book I have ever read by J.A. Armstrong but I have to say this has been my favorite. Awesome job!!
January 2, 2019
Excellent story! I love every book by this author!
January 6, 2019
Another great story
I really like this series, the characters are great. They make you think and realise that we all need a bit more faith in our lives.
I really like this series, the characters are great. They make you think and realise that we all need a bit more faith in our lives.
January 13, 2019
Cute
I enjoy all of this authors books. The story is well written. The is about love between a 49 year old and a 31 year old. Nice love scenes and a nice ending.
I enjoy all of this authors books. The story is well written. The is about love between a 49 year old and a 31 year old. Nice love scenes and a nice ending.
March 7, 2019
Fun Book
Delightful and insightful what a fun loving book. I thoroughly liked this book. Has great insights and was written very well.
Delightful and insightful what a fun loving book. I thoroughly liked this book. Has great insights and was written very well.
May 15, 2019
Decent read
The book was a good read, it is predictable. Nice afternoon of light reading on a rainy day. I enjoyed it.
The book was a good read, it is predictable. Nice afternoon of light reading on a rainy day. I enjoyed it.
May 20, 2019
Steamy short story with an age gap. A good set of secondary characters help bring the story to life.
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May 1, 2022Finding Faith
JA Armstrong is an outstanding author. She brings depth of emotion to her books. I enjoyed this book and look forward to the next in the series.
JA Armstrong is an outstanding author. She brings depth of emotion to her books. I enjoyed this book and look forward to the next in the series.
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